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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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572 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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packetlost ◴[16 Oct 24 15:42 UTC] No.41860400[source]▶
The new Kindle Scribe looks kinda lame compared to the new reMarkable Pro, though significantly cheaper. Maybe the colored ePaper isn't that great, but at least you get some color for highlighting, which is probably a non-insignificant use of these types of devices.

Either way, sad there's no Oasis refresh. I'm not super attached to the physical buttons, but I'd prefer it to not. Oh well.

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linsomniac ◴[16 Oct 24 23:19 UTC] No.41864889[source]▶
I had an original Scribe and while the writing experience was superb, I felt like the software experience was minimal and over the year or so I had it, it didn't really get enhanced any. My review of it was: It's just like paper, only more expensive.

It seemed like if you wanted a large ebook reader AND occasional note taking, it's probably great. For my use, I would have been just as happy with just a spiral notebook, probably happier. I used it every day for work notes and todos.

I sold it on ebay and got an Boox Note Air3, similar cost, and the writing experience is not nearly as good as the Scribe, but it is a much more capable device with many more features in the notebook. However, I've fallen out of the habit of using it, I think just because the writing experience isn't as good.

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packetlost ◴[16 Oct 24 23:25 UTC] No.41864920[source]▶
This is similar to me with my reMarkable 2. The writing experience is strictly worse than even cheap notebook and dramatically worse than a nice one with a nice mechanical pencil + lead.

It's fine for reading PDFs, I guess.

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1. grogenaut ◴[17 Oct 24 05:20 UTC] No.41866648{3}[source]▶
I have bad hand writing and over scratch paper with pencils... I greatly prefer the e-tablets for writing, so ymmv. I'm 47. I just did 6 months of college classes out of the blue, I did about 50/50 paper/tablet so this is based on about 100 hour recent testing. I had to practice a lot of mec pencil and paper as that's how our exams were.